The future’s books from nowhere

Neat Globe & Mail Piece by author Hal Niedzviecki. Humber College’s 2005 inaugural summer course in book publishing ended with an assignment: Develop a publishing business. The ideas were so eerily in step with global and domestic publishing trends, these students did more than excel at the exercise. Collectively, they also explored and exposed the future of Canadian books.

not a single one of those five proposed publishing houses planned to publish fiction. The five proposed publishing businesses all had, at their core, a rootless universalist ideology — books that could be published and read anywhere.

In the end, they chose the metrosexual/bad architecture house as the winner.

October 15, 2005 by Uncategorized 0

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